why would you "cook" a tomato before eating it? This isn't a fry-up. When I was travelling my diet was pretty much cheese, raw tomatoes, bread. They're good with rye bread.
Raw carrots are nicer than cooked ones. Celery, same thing. That's about it though, apart from lettuce and stuff. Certain peppers are good raw.

but 'vegetable' has no botanical definition; it is only culinarily defined. You could say, then, that any edible part of a plant which is botanically fruit should be referred to as fruit, and vegetable otherwise, but there are plenty of edible parts of plants which are *not* botanically fruit but we nonetheless refer to as such. Strawberries, for example, are not botanically fruit. So it seems clear that, for the most part, we let culinary distinctions guide us rather than botanical ones, so there is no reason to refer to the tomato as a fruit in everyday conversation. Likewise plenty of other fruits which we generally refer to as vegetables - cucumbers, bell peppers, etc. Why the tomato has come to be an exception, I don't know.

they'll have a relationship with farm suppliers, the food will be fresh and seasonal (which is the best way to make sure vegetables taste good), and it will be reasonably priced too. the only issue is when they're likely to run - because they're community orientated they often occur during work hours so only people in the local area can make it.

They try to source all their products from the local farms and small holders.
Some things just can't be done though, bananas for example are particularly difficult to source locally in Scotland for some reason...